by A. Lubbock based on original research by Dr. Rahma Bourqia (IFAD, 1998)

This document presents the main findings of a study carried out between 1994 and 1995 in three villages in Eastern Morocco - each representative of a different environmental context. The study concerns gender roles in household production systems and decision-making mechanisms in farm and household management, and it analyses some of their implications for development and project design.

• Executive Summary
  
• Introduction
  
• Similarities and difference among communities
  
• General implications for development and for project design
  
• Conclusions
  
• Appendix I - Summary description of the three Villages
  
• Appendix II - Tables

 

Read more Rural poverty in Morocco IFAD operations Morocco Boxes Box 1 - Participation in Oulad Lfqir Box 2 - Food security and survival strategies in Elhouafi and Taghilast Box 3 - Possible Implications of Crop Diversification Box 4 - Differences among the Surveyed Villages: Examples of Possible Implications for Development and Project Options Box 5 - Possible Implications of Pasture-rehabilitation Measures Box 6 - Who Does What and Who Decides Box 7 - Social Stratification in the Three Villages Box 8 - Factors That Affect Differences in the Mobility of Women Box 9 - Education Box 10 - "The rich who have gone away"